Pooley, Oliver and Brown, Harvey R. (2001) Relationism Rehabilitated? I: Classical Mechanics. [Preprint]

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Abstract

The implications for the substantivalist--relationist controversy of Barbour and Bertotti's successful implementation of a Machian approach to dynamics are investigated. It is argued that in the context of Newtonian mechanics the Machian framework provides a genuinely relational interpretation of dynamics and that it is more explanatory than the conventional, substantival interpretation. In a companion paper (Pooley 2001), the implications of the Machian approach for the interpretation of relativistic physics are explored.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Pooley, Oliver Brown, Harvey R.
Keywords:	Machianism, relationism, space, spacetime, space-time, substantivalism, absolutism, Barbour, Belot
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Classical Physics
Depositing User:	Oliver Pooley
Date Deposited:	10 Apr 2001
Last Modified:	07 Oct 2010 15:10
Item ID:	220
Subjects:	Specific Sciences > Physics > Classical Physics
Date:	April 2001
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/220

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